#168: Tales from Another Mother Runner Essayist Katie Arnold
Another Mother Runner
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dimity and Sarah have a digital sit-down with Katie Arnold, an ultramarathoner with two young daughters, to discuss a wide range of topics. Find out why D & S quickly dub this long-time runner, “Katie of the Massive Quads,” and how legendary Dean Karnazes figures into Katie’s journey to tackling—and often winning—ultra-distance races. Katie opens up about how running has brought her through hard times, including the death of her father, and how running allows her to “be wild” in her own world. After reading from her essay in Tales from Another Mother Runner, Katie talks about “free-range parenting,” a topic she often explores in her Outside Online column, Raising Rippers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Serum, Portland. |
| 0:13.0 | This is Dimmity in Denver. Happy 4th of July, SBS. |
| 0:17.0 | Yes, to you as well. God bless America. |
| 0:20.0 | Red, white, and blue, grand old flag, all that stuff. |
| 0:23.0 | What else? |
| 0:24.0 | Uncle Sam? |
| 0:26.0 | Hot dogs and baseball and apple pie. |
| 0:28.0 | And so, um, so how do you celebrate the 4th of July dim? Are you all a big fireworks |
| 0:34.3 | watcher or barbecues or what do you do? You know it just depends upon the year. You know there's |
| 0:40.2 | we belong to a neighborhood pool and so they often have a they have a game day you know where you die for |
| 0:47.5 | pennies and soda and beer if you're an adult and not all at once you don't't you don't do die for the beers so that they put |
| 0:55.2 | beers at the bottom of the pool and die for them? Yeah, yeah. Oh I love that. Yeah, yeah, they put them in the thing. |
| 1:00.5 | It's it's something. And then the deep end where like the diving well is they they put a mini keg |
| 1:06.4 | oh my god jack would suddenly become like Greg Luganus here. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah you have to start the start the it's definitely a strategy to it. I've done it once. I will not, I will say it's mostly dominated by the men. |
| 1:19.0 | So, you know, I get in there and I'm like, I don't know, and it really depends upon what kind of beer they have I'm not going to |
| 1:24.3 | swim for Miller Light like that's just or Coors Light if they got a Shinerbock down there you |
| 1:28.2 | Shinerbock yeah yeah you're down there and it's got to be in a can. Right. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, no glass in the pool. |
| 1:34.0 | But yeah, so they have that kind of stuff in a barbecue. |
| 1:37.0 | And then, yeah, we'll go watch fireworks. |
| 1:39.0 | I mean, we have a couple options where, like it had kind of close by that we can just drive to and it's not crazy, you know, it's not like Boston Heather Charles kind of scene, you know? |
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